Artist Research- Marc Quinn
Marc Quinn is a British contemporary visual artist that works with sculpture, installation and painting. He came to light in the early 1990s and makes art about what it is to be a person living in the world, drawing inspiration from our relationship with nature, human desires, identity, beauty and why people transform their own beauty. He has a number of collections that are interesting to me and relate to my own work, these include the collections ‘Self’ and ‘Artists Body’.
Starting with the collection ‘Self’, here he casts his own head in frozen silicone using 10 pints of his blood. It is an on-going self portrait that he makes every 5 years, showing the passing of time and changing of self. This work also takes on a symbolic and functional meaning as Quinn started this work when he was an alcoholic. He talks about how he depended on the alcohol to survive, much like how the heads need electricity to be kept frozen.
Quinn also states that ‘...art is an engagement with the material world.. its transformable energy and the immaterial world of emotions/ideas...’
His collection ‘Artists body’ also explores preserving the human body (his own body) using various methods such as his own excrements, latex, rubber and crushed lead. Pieces like ‘You take my breath away’ and ‘No visible means of escape’ use latex casts of his body that are then suspended limply from the ceiling.
His ideas and the way he presents his work is fascinating to me and will definitely inspire the way I want to photograph/present my outcomes.
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